Teaching

Louise Doughty is a tutor on the Faber Academy six month, selective course for new novelists.  She has also taught creative writing for a wide variety of institutions including the Arvon Foundation and Birkbeck College. She is a graduate of the MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, where she studied under Malcolm Bradbury and Angela Carter.  She regularly lectures overseas for the British Council.

 

Recent visits include:

 

1997: Australia New Images tour

1999: Writers' Residency at the Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

2000: tour of Romania

2004: creative writing workshops in Tripoli, Libya

2005: creative writing workshops and talks in Colombo and Kandy, Sri Lanka

2005: appearance at Gothenborg Book Festival, Sweden

 

2006: Walberberg Seminar followed by reading tour of southern Germany

 

2007: Reading Across Cultures seminar in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

 

2008: Perth International Festival of Literature and Lit.Cologne, Germany 

 2009: Novel-writing masterclass in Colombo, Sri Lanka, creative writing seminar with Rimi B Chatterjee in Chennai, India

 

 

Louise Doughty has also appeared at many international writers' festivals and seminars including, in the UK, the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Cheltenham Literary Festival, Dartington Ways with Words and Hay-on-Wye. Festivals abroad include, Melbourne Festival, Hobart Spring Festival in Tasmania, the Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival and the Banff-Calgary Wordfest, the Galle Literary Festival in Sri Lanka.